Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting

Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting

Theatrical poster for Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (1988)
Directed by Shūji Kataoka[1]
Written by Shūji Kataoka
Starring Kanako Kishi
Megumi Takahashi
Sayaka Hitomi
Cinematography Satoshi Shimomoto
Edited by Shōji Sakai
Production
company
Shishi Productions
Distributed by Nikkatsu
Release dates
 May 7, 1988
Running time
 61 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (地下鉄連続レイプ　愛人狩り Chikatetsu Renzoku Reipu: Aijin-Gari) is a 1988 Japanese pink film written and directed by Shūji Kataoka. It was named the Best Film at the first Pink Grand Prix ceremony.[2]

Synopsis

Tomoko, a newscaster, decides to do a series of stories on rapes in subways. A gang which perpetrates these attacks targets the newscaster, and she is assaulted while broadcasting live.[3]

Cast

Background

Shūji Kataoka filmed Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting for producer-director Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions and it was released theatrically in Japan by Nikkatsu on May 7, 1988.[1] It became available online through the Hokuto Corporation's DMM service on December 17, 2004.[5]

Kataoka's Subway Serial Rape series was inaugurated in 1985. The first film was intended as a single, but led to three loosely related sequels. Kataoka had worked as assistant director to Yōjirō Takita in his Molester's Train series. Unlike the light tone of Takita's films, Kataoka's Subway Serial Rape series is intentionally shocking and offensive. All the films in the series were released by Nikkatsu during the last years of its Roman porno series era. Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting was the fourth and last entry in the series, released in 1988, the year that Nikkatsu ceased production. In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser write that these films may be "the most perfect portrayal of voyeurism ever captured on celluloid".[3]

Following Nikkatsu's bankruptcy the year of the release of Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting, lead actress Kanako Kishi became one of the most prominent pink film actresses of the 1990s.[3] She is especially associated with the work of actor-director Kazuhiro Sano, appearing in several of his films.[6] Known for his supporting roles in such mainstream films as Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine (1993) and Hana-bi (1997), Ren Ōsugi had started his film career in the pink genre with Banmei Takahashi's Tightly Bound Sacrifice (1980). Subway Serial Rape was his last appearance in a pink film.[7]

Bibliography

English

Japanese

Notes

  1. 1 2 地下鉄連続レイプ　愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-06-24. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ↑ "Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-06-24. External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. 1 2 3 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 421–422. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  4. ↑ 地下鉄連続レイプ　愛人狩り (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  5. ↑ 日活ニッカツロマンポルノ (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-06-24. External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. ↑ Under the Carp Banner; Interview with Kazuhiro Sano; Interviewed by Nakashima Yasushi (in Japanese and English). Artsmagic. 2006-10-31. Event occurs at 19:05.
  7. ↑ Sharp, pp. 239-240.
Preceded by
New award		 Pink Grand Prix for Best Film
1988 		Succeeded by
Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima


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